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Thursday, July 26, 2012

FO Friday - Socks

Finished the socks with plenty of time to spare for the Friday FO post :-)

I also decided I'd better start getting ready for the Ravelym... I mean Ravellenic Games and wind my yarn into a ball. Good thing too, as it took me an hour to go from this:
to this:
The yarn is SO soft and lovely to work with :)

Now I'm all ready and eager to start :) I'm a bit worried about my gauge though. If I'm doing this right, the stitch count is spot on, but the row count is off by a factor 2!!! How is that even possible? I think I'm going to assume that I'm not doing it right and am in fact counting two rows every time I should count only one, because in that case the row count would be spot on as well ;) But I'm kerflummuxed...

I did, thanks! The ravelry page said "21 rows in garter stitch" - I've always counted gauge in garter stitch ridges, so I got confused. Thankfully when I looked at the pattern itself, it said "21 garter stitch ridges", so I was right on the money :)

LOVE those socks -- I'm such a sucker for stripes, and those colors are awesome. Happy Ravellenic-ing! The opening ceremony is just underway and I'm stuck at work for a few more hours. Go Multnomah! And Tami's yarn is awesome. You're going to love working with it!